Greg Hoglund
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Michael Gregory Hoglund is an American author, researcher, and serial entrepreneur in the cyber security industry. He is the founder of several companies, including Cenzic, HBGary and Outlier Security. Hoglund contributed early research to the field of rootkits, software exploitation, buffer overflows, and online game hacking. His later work focused on computer forensics, physical memory forensics, malware detection, and attribution of hackers. He holds a patent on fault injection methods for software testing, and fuzzy hashing for computer forensics. Due to an email leak in 2011, Hoglund is well known to have worked for the U.S. Government and Intelligence Community in the development of rootkits and exploit material.[2][3] It was also shown that he and his team at HBGary had performed a great deal of research on Chinese Government hackers commonly known as APT (Advanced persistent threat). For a time, his company HBGary was the target of a great deal of media coverage and controversy following the 2011 email leak (see below, Controversy and email leak). HBGary was later acquired by a large defense contractor.[4]
Hoglund has founded several security startup companies which were still in operation today:
- Cenzic, Inc. (formerly known as ClickToSecure, Inc.[5]) Focused on web application security for the Fortune-500.[6]
- Bugscan, Inc. Developed an appliance that would scan software for security vulnerabilities without sourcecode. Acquired in 2004 by LogicLibrary, Inc.[7]
- HBGary, Inc. Provides a comprehensive suite of software products to detect, analyze, and diagnose Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and targeted malware. Acquired in 2012 by Mantech International (MANT).[8] HBGary had no outside investors and was owned by the founders and early employees.
- Outlier Security, Inc. Provides cloud-based, agentless endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems for enterprises. Acquired in 2017 by Symantec (SYMC).
Patents
- Granted: Fuzzy Hash Algorithm[9]
- Granted: Fault injection methods and apparatus[10] along with Penny C. Leavy, Jonathan Walter Gary, and Riley Dennis Eller.
- Applied: Inoculator and antibody for computer security[11] along with Shawn Michael Bracken.
- Applied: Digital DNA sequence.[12]
- Applied: Universal method and apparatus for disparate systems to communicate[13] along with Yobie Benjamin, Abhideep Singh, and Jonathan Gary.
